St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-20
SAINT PAUL MATTERS.
Salaries in the Building Inspectors and
Water Works Department Fixed
by the Council.
What Interested Parties Have to Say Of
the Alleged Attempt to
Buy a Corpse.
A Husband Whose Wife Has Left
Him--Remarks in a Third
Party Speech.
Helping the Poor--Gossfp Gathered
in the Hotels--Summary
of Local.
SALARIES ABOUT THE SAME.

of Local.
SALARIES ABOUT the SAME.
The City Council Thinkers the Ordi.
nance Which tho Com mittee Fixed
Up--Poiice Appointments.
The council had long and busy session
last night. Aid. Dowan presided. in the alb
sence of President Kerr. Resolutions order
ing the issuance of $1,000 600 in court house
bonds and $4,000 park improvement bonds
were referred TO the ways aud means COM
mittee. The adverse reports of the board of
public works on the paving of Arundel
street, Laurel avenue. Virginia avenue,
Nina avenue and Kent street with
asphalt, and on the proposed change of grade
on Forest and Frances streets, were sus-
aimed. Messrs ID. X. Noyes, Thomas Coch-
ran, Jr., and William Liadeke, Il committee
from the chamber of commerce, appeared
before the council TO request the city to as
sumo the charge and expense of operating
the state signal service, heretofore sustained
by the chamber OF commerce. Mr.. NOyeS
stated that the cost OF the service was not
more than $3.50 year. but that the chamber
was not i'll financial condition to take care of
it, and if the city would assume
the expense he had no doubt but that the
next legislature would reimburse it in the
full amount. The matter was referred. Aid.
KennyS efforts TO reduce the salaries in the
water board and building inspectors offices,
which were so successful in committee, did
not show so well when the council got through
holding up the committee report and lacking
Oh amendments, which finally left
the salaries almost as much as
before. The salary of the secretary
of the water board was placed back at $3.50.
and the president was cut TO S2,40O and the
attorney to 81, 900. The recommendation of
the comm ttee was that the salaries of the
building inspectors Office should not exceed
$4,000. Mr.. johnson. the inspector, was
present, and explained TO the council that the
Office could not possibly be operated eff
ficienty with that sum, and it was increased
again to Sl2, 00U, only $500 less than
provided in the original ordinance. or this
sum the building inspector is to have $4,000;
assistant inspector is to have, Sl,500; clerk.
$1,000, and the remaining $4,000 is to be spent
for additional inspectors and plumbing in
spector, provided that the expense of the
office does not exceed the income obtained
from tees collected.
POLICE MATTERS. t--
The report Of the police committee was
adopted entire. 1t authorizes the mayor to
appoint twenty-five additional patrolmen to
enter the force on May l. The drivers and
jailers selected for the new substations TO be
opened on that date are +. H. Waters, driver.
and J. J. Kennedy, jailer (Rondo street sta
tion); NJ. Scaunell. driver, and John Ryan,
jailer Fifth ward station); and Peter Koch,
driver and Joseph Guion, jailer Sixth ward
station).
4 resolution by Aid. Long, ordering the
board of public works to report on the paw
ing of East Fourth street, from Broadway to
the tunnel, brought Aid. Kenny to his feet.
He objected to any such action, because, he
said, the street was three feet below grade,
and the railroad had not yet built retaining
wall, as promised. He then moved that it be
referred, and got favorable vote, when the
chair construed it to be ref erred to the COM
mittee on streets.
Aid. Kenny-"My motion was to refer 1t to
the alderman Of that ward-myseIf."
Aid. Dowlan-"That was not your notion
Aid. Kenny-'1 say it was my motion; and
the chair has misconStrued it Intentionally
Aid. Cullen then moved a reconsideration,
an the vote stood a tie to Z. Aid. Sau-
born then moved the original question, to send
the order TO the board of works, and it was
done by a vote of 8 to +. Aid. Kenny was
mad. He glared at Aid. Long and remarked:
~ am willing Fourth street should be
paved. although the property owners don't
want it. but want to see the railroad com.
pany do as agreed first, and give the city an
easement for the Sixth street bridge. Aid.
Long seems to be very anxious TO have this
done at once. I'd like to know what consid-
GRAFTON he gets for wanting that street~paved
so bad anyway.
Aid. Long replied, mildly: 81 understand
A resolution was introduced by Aid. KAN,
ordering
THE STREET RAILWAY
company to build and operate the Maria
avenue line on Daytons bluff within the next
six months. Aid. Cullen wanted it referred
10 the committee on streets. AID. Kahn Wig
orously opposed this. He did not want the
matter delayed. The company had fooled
with that part of the city and ignored them
long enough. The line had been
asked for Two years ago. and they
were no nearer getting it now than then
The aristocratic st. Anthony hill people had
asked for line and got it. Probably now
they would raise the point that they didn't
have to build more than two lines in the sea.
son. Aid. Kahn talked from the shoulder,
and with his consent the resolution was sent
to the street committee with Aid. Kahn
added, with instructions to report at. the
next meeting.
The employment agency ordinance was re-
ported back, with the license placed at $3.50.
Aid. Cullen thought this was too high, and
moved amendment making it $75. Aid.
Petsch opposed the amendment. Aid. KAN,
the labor champion, was also strongly opposed
TO it. He said q
There is feeling among the laboriug
people against employment agencies. They
rob the laboring men; $3.50 is not enough to
keep disreputable men out of the business,
! would like to see it $780,
The amendment was defeated by a vote of
A3 to l. A new dog tax ordinance was pre-
scented and passed under suspension of the
rules as a substitute for the ordinance re-
ferred at the previous session. 1t places the
tax on male dogs at 81, and on female dogs at
81. 1t also provides for the killing
of vicious and unlicensed animals
An adverse report on the extension of the.
electric light to West Seventh street, and the
maintenance of a ferry on West Seventh
street to Mendoza was sustained. Appro-
priations amounting to So, 109 Us were voted
the board of fire commissioners for the pur-
chase of burial grounds for the department
in Oakland and Calvary cemeteries.